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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93404	Moses his prayer. Or, An exposition of the nintieth Psalme. In which is set forth, the frailty and misery of mankind; most needfull for these times. Wherein [brace] 1. The sum and scope. 2. The doctrines. 3. The reasons. 4. The uses of most texts are observed. / By Samuel Smith, minister of the Gospel, author of Davids repentance and the Great assize, and yet living.	Smith, Samuel, 1588-1665.	1656 (1656)	Wing S4189A; Thomason E1624_1; ESTC R208959	212,879	567

the consideration of this point That howsoever the Church as the Disciples boat may bee tossed and tumbled up and down with the waves and billows of furious spirits for a time let us not despair for the day of her Deliverance wil come when the Sun of righteousness shall arise and healing shall be under his wings and that at such a time when deliverance will prove most seasonable and comfortable Hitherto of what they pray for Comfort According to the daies wherein thou hast afflicted us AS they crave this at Gods hands that the Lord would comfort them in their misery So they intreat the Lord to keep some proportion and according to the time of their great affliction to give them comfort that as the Lord had a long time kept them under the rod so hee would now upon their true repentance be reconciled unto them and vouchsafe a plentiful measure of comfort and joy unto them Hence wee learn that the Lord doth never cast his people so low by affliction Doct. 3 The godly as they are cast down God will raise them up but he will in time raise them up as high with comfort They that sow in tears shall reap in joy It is spoken of the Churches return out of Captivity they went out weeping and carrying pr●tous seed but they shall return with joy and bring their sheaves with them And this doth the Lord make clear by his Prophet Ps 126.5 6. when he saith For a little time have I for s●ken thee but with great compassion will I gather thee Our light afflictions saith Paul which last but for a moment Esay 54.7 8. bring unto us a far more excellent even an eternall weight of glory 2 Cor. 4.17 If the Lord should alwaies dandle us as an indulgent Father his child it were the way to make us wantons And if he should alwaies be beating us as our sins deserve wee could not serve him so cheerfully But now he mixeth his frowns favours together that he might shew his hatred to our sins yet so as to love our persons Thus the Lord in his wise dispensation is pleased to carry us through the wildernesse of this world as this people through the wildernesse they travailed through yet at last they came to Elim where they had fountains of water to refresh them And if we looke for Examples of Gods dealing in this kind we may see it in Job who was brought low even to the Dunghil Iob 42. yet the Lord did restore him that the latter end of Job was better then the beginning Thus Dav●d Daniel yea Christ himselfe were thus humbled and layd full low and then raised up againe with Comfort According to that of David Psal 34.19 Many are the troubles of the Righteous but the Lord delivereth them out of all The Lord is thus pleased to cast his people many times full low Reas 1 and so againe to raise them up on high Because he is privy to our sins and to our wickednesse as that he will not wink at our sins but will visit our iniquities with the rod and our sins with scourges So he hath alwaies compassion upon the weaknesse of his servants for he knoweth whereof we are made he considereth that we are but dust What Father will suffer his Childs Rebellion and disobedience but will correct him and yet in his misery will not pittie him 1 Cor. 10.13 the Lord is much more good to his children who will not suffer us to bee tempted aboue that we are are able In all the miseries of Gods children Reas 2 Gods ears are alwayes open to their cryes and is he even a spectator of their sorrows I have seen I have seen sayth the Lord the troubles of my people I also have heard their cry and I will deliver them So long then as the children of God have a tongue to call upon God and a heart to sigh and groane unto him why should they doubt of deliverance Seeing the Lord deals thus with his people Vse 1 and keepes some proportion in their afflictions and comforts that their comforts shall be answerable to their sorrowes yea much greater this may teach us this profitable lesson to possess our souls with patience in bearing afflictions and corrections and not to gr●dg and repine at the Lords dealings though he seem to load us with great and long calamities as this people here not to pine and murmur at his hand but patiently to bear them because here is comfort unto us that if the Lord lay long piercing sorrows afflictions upon us yea for many years together yet he will make us amends at last by giving us such a measure of comfort as shall be proportionable and answerable unto them if not in this world which the Lord often doth yet most certainly in the world to come As Christ sayth Mar. 16.28 If any man forsake all for me I will give him in this world a hundred fold and in the world to come life everlasting That is comfort for ever Seeing that God doth thus often cast downe his people low Vse 2 and then raises them up on high As this may be a ground of patienceunto us in all our trials and miseries So we are hence instructed not to judge of our condition according to our present comforts But to have an eye to the end Marke the upright man and behold the just the latter end of that man is blessed The end we say proves all things Should the painfull and laborious Husbandman hope onely upon his seed-time which is so full of labour and toyle wet and cold and not to looke withall upon the Harvest it were able to make him heartlesse to undergo his labour But when he considers of that beautifull increase that he may reape this makes him indure all weathers The godly in all their greatest miseries and sufferings want not the grounds of joy and when the Lord hath sufficiently humbled them and fitted them for comfort and deliverance the Lord will not faile to come in to their succour According to the days where in thou hast afflictedius WHen once the days of sorrowes and times of afflictions are over gone and past Doct. 4 Afflictions past seeme but a few dayes 2 Cor. 4 19. Ps 30.6 they seeme but a few dayes According to the dayes c. The Apostle calls our afflictions light and momentary And God indureth but a while in Anger Heavinesse may indure for a night but joy commeth in the morning And the reasons why they esteemed their affliction short and but for a few dayes are Was because they had deserved great and more tedious Calamities Reas 1 in regard of the greatnesse of their sins and the Hainousnesse of their rebellions Though afflictions seem to be long whilest we are under them Reas 2 it is the nature of present comfort to swallow up the thoughts of them as Jacob when he served Laban s●aven years

as one of his enemies The like we may see in David that was a man after Gods own heart yet exercised with sore afflictions in his estate body minde and conscience as that he hath often very sad complaints Psal 6.3 My soul is sore troubled but Lord how long wilt thou delay Thy indignation ●ieth upon me and tho● hast vexed me with all thy waves Will he Lord absent himself for ever 〈◊〉 88.7 and will he shew no more favour Ps 77.8 Hath God forgot●en to be gracious and hath he shute● his loving kindnesse in displeasure Nay our Saviour Christ himself when he lived here what was his life but a life of sorrows and afflictions even All his dayes even from the Manger to the Crosse his whole life indeed was a continuall passion So that the point is clear that the afflictions of Gods Church and People many times doe and may last long But how can this stand with those places of Scripture that say Quest that our afflictions in this life are short and momentany 2 Cor. 4.17 Es 54.7 Our light afflictions which are but for a moment and again for a small moment have I forsaken thee The afflictions of Gods Church and People are short Answ 1 not simply of themselves for so many times they last long but in comparison of the glory that is hereafter to be revealed they are short They are not short to sense for so many times are they long but to faith they are so which apprehends Gods favour presence and grace in the sharpest trials and expects the accomplishment of Gods promise in giving a happy issue unto them so are they short If we look unto this life so are afflictions long But if we look to eternity and that glory that hereafter is to be revealed so are they short and last but for a moment But what might be the Reasons why Gods hand should lye so heavy Quest and that so long a time upon his children The first may be that of the Apostle Ans Reas 1 We are chastened of the Lord that we might not be condemned with the world 1 Cor. 11.32 Should not the Lord many times put this bridle upon us by sharp affliction to keep us in and make us know ourselves the Prodigal would never think of returning home nor Manasses know that God is the Lord. Were it not for the rod many of Gods children would run riot as the Prodigal did and kick against God as Manasses did But afflictions keep them in And David can say Ps 119.75 I know that thou of very faithfulnesse hast caused me to be afflicted It is an argument of Gods anger and heavy displeasure against the wicked to suffer them to go on in sin without check or controlement to fill up the measure of their iniquities Hos 4.14 I will not visit your daughters for their whoredomes that was a heavy judgement of God upon them Thus doth God many times plague most when he seems to spare most Whereas of his own people the Lord speaketh thus Amos 3.2 You onely have I known of all the families of the earth therefore will I punish you for all your iniquities Gods glory is another main end of all Gods chastisements and afflictions he layes upon his people Reas 2 He is the Author and Giver of all graces and when these shall break out shine and appear the glory of their excellency shall most redound to God that gave them O how did the patience of Job and his holy dependency still upon God even in his sharpest brunts and trials which Satan by Gods permission brought upon him shine and appear to the glory of Gods grace that he could blesse God Iob 1.12 and say Though the ●ord kill me yet will I trust in him And when we can be content for Gods sake Ps 44.22 To be killed all the day long and with those blessed Apostles Rejoyce that we are accounted worthy to suffer for Christ Hereby Gods people are driven to God the onely Refuge in times of misery Reas 3 as the malefactor to the horns of the Altar It was the depths of Davids misery that caused him to send forth deep sighs and groans to the Throne of Grace And lastly Reas 4 hereby the Promises taste the more sweet It was the famine that made the Prodigall to see the priviledge of Servants in his Fathers house And to procure unto us the sounder comfort the deeper the incision is made into the wound the more perfect will the cure be The Prophet cries out My belly trembled my lips ●●rok rottennesse entred into my bones but the end and issue was Heb. 3.16 that I might rest in the day of trouble And herein the Lord provideth for his own glory in bringing light out of darknesse and by the humiliation of his children brings their greatest exaltation When Jacob must be blessed he must first wrestle for it and when Joseph shal be exalted he must first to the Prison Thus God many times deals with us Seeing afflictions thus many times lye long upon Gods people Use 1 This may serve for the just reproof of those that judge of Gods favour and love towards themselves and others by their outward estate and hence conclude those most happy upon whom God bestows most and those most miserable that enjoy least and lye under affliction Thus Jobs friends though otherwise good men yet when they saw the hand of God upon Job in that strange manner most uncharitably judged him for an hypocrite Eccl. 9.1 2. This is a false rule to go by and this is to condemn the generation of the righteous Pro. 3.12 No man saith Solomon can judge of love or hatred by all that is before him God many times plagues the wicked in sparing them and God loves his children when most severely he corrects them So that outward prosperity is no infallible signe of Gods love neither are afflictions crosses and calamities infallible signes of Gods displeasure Use 2 Secondly this may admonish us that if the Lord shall at any time thus deal with us as with his people here and send us long and tedious afflictions in our bodies mindes or estates by trouble of minde sicknesse poverty losses crosses or the like we are not therefore to despair or presently to think that God loves us not but hath cast us off Shall we not drink of the cup that Christ himself drank off We pray Thy will be done Now if it be his will that we shall thus spend our daies in affliction and misery our very passive obedience in suffering Gods Will be to done upon us brings not lesse glory to God then when we actually doe his will We are not to murmure repine and complain but possesse our souls by patience Acts 14.22 for if we will be his Disciples we must through many tribulations enter into the Kingdome of Heaven But is it possible Quest that the

Eagle they shall run and not be weary they shall walk and not faint They shall be like the tree planted by the Rivers of waters whose leaves shall not fall And this may yield matter of singular Comfort and consolation unto all the faithfull Hath the Lord begun in any of us the good worke of grace and put it into our hearts to walke in the right way of his commandements and to travaile towards the celestiall Canaan let us blesse God for this mercy And withall all intreat the Lord that he would still direct and guide us and never le●ve us but even bring us to the end of our Journey And never forsake us till he hath put us into the possession of that glorious inheritance prepared for us in that heavenly Canaan for if he direct us not by his grace and by his spirit it cannot be that we shall hold out but must needs turne aside in the broad way to destruction A Table of the principall Doctrines contained in this Book In the Title Doct. 1. TO doubt of Gods providence and to question his power a great sin page 5 Doct. 2. The greatest Honour is truly to be called a Servant of God page 14 Doct. 3. Teachers of the people should pray for the people Doct. 4. Times of affliction are times of prayer page 31 VERSE I. Doct. 1. The very complaints of the godly are effectuall prayers page 42 Doct. 2. When a Nation or people decay in beauty and glory it is high time to be humbled page 51 Doct. 3. To plead Gods former mercies a speciall motive to move him to pitty page 56 Doct. 4. Gods Church and people have ever had a Dwelling place page 62 Doct. 5. The Church of God is ever one and the same page 72 VERSE II. Doct. 1. In times of distresse we are ready to question Gods power page 77 Doct. 2. The knowledge of Gods covenant gives boldnesse in prayer page 84 Doct. 3. There was a time when there was no earth or world page 89 Doct. 4. God was from all eternitie page 95 VERSE III. Doct. 1. The greatest comfort to the godly in suffering times is to consider that their afflictions come from God page 101 Doct. 2. Our life and being here uncertaine page 107 Doct. 3. All men at last shall rise againe page 118 Doct. 4. Man a peece of living Clay page 131 VERSE IV. Doct. 1. Our life short being compared to eternitie page 138 Doct. 2. Man hardly convinc'd that his life is short page 142 VERSES V VI. Doct. 1. Death is unresistable page 147 Doct. 2. Death many times comes suddenly as a flood page 153 Doct. 3. Death is as a sleepe page 165 Doct. 4. Life of a man so fraile as no example can expresse page 173 VERSE VII Doct. 1. Gods people should be humbled when it fares worse with them then with the wicked page 185 Doct. 2. Though mans life be short yet sin makes it shorter page 190 Doct. 3. Extraordinary Iudgments signes of extraordinary sins page 196 Doct. 4. Mans ignorance of God great page 207 Doct. 5. Gods Anger once kindled Consumes to destruction page 110 Doct. 6. Sin most of all affects the heart of the godly page 120 VERSE VIII Doct. 1. Sight of sin Ground of Humiliation for sin page 227 Doct. 2. Sin the cause of all judgment upon a people 136 Doct. 3. Times of affliction discover Corruption page 247 Doct. 4. A true penitent will be Humbled for his most secret sins page 257 Doct. 5. Our most secret sins are done God looking on page 265 VERSE IX Doct. 1. The sufferings of the godly sometimes exceed the wicked page 274 Doct. 2. Gods hand somtimes long upon his own people Ibid. Doct. 3. The effect of Gods anger terrible page 285 Doct. 4. It is the sight of sin and the sence of Gods displeasure for sin that is the ground of true Repentance page 293 VERSE X. Doct. 1. Mans life but short page 305 Doct. 2. Misery of man since the fall wondrous great page 313 Doct. 3. There is no age of mans life but is full of labour and sorrow page 316 Doct. 4. Sin many times causeth suddain death page 323 Doct. 5. Godly confesse their own sins as the sins of others page 325 VERSE XI Doct. 1. Few take notice of Gods Anger as they ought to doe page 331 Doct. 2. Gods anger most terrible page 337 Doct. 3. Men feare God no more because they know not the power of his wrath page 340 Doct. 4. The best faile in the measure of the feare of God page 346 VERSE XII Doct. 1. No man can number his dayes aright unlesse God teach him page 355 Doct. 2. We ought to esteeme of every day as our last day page 361 Doct. 3. Men are never truly wise till then page 371 Doct. 4. True wisedome consists in true obedience page 377 VERSE XIII Doct. 1. Men never seeke to God for Reconciliation till they feele his displeasure page 385 Doct. 2. In times of misery and distresse God only is to be sought unto page 393 Doct. 3. Whilest God seems to be angry there is no peace page 405 Doct. 4. To mind the Lord of the Continuance of our affection a good motive to move him to pitty page 411 Doct. 5. In regard of Gods gratious presence God may turne aside from his people for a time page 415 Doct. 6. To plead Gods covenant an excellent motive to move him to pitty page 424 VERSE XIV Doct. 1. There can be no comfort to a distressed Soul ' till it be reconciled to God page 436 Doct. 2. Before we can be filled with mercy we must seeke our misery page 442 Doct. 3. We must labour for a plentifull sence of mercy page 446 Doct. 4. Onely Gods favour refresheth a distressed Soul page 452 Doct. 5. Gods mercyes should provoke to cheerfulnesse in his service page 457 Doct. 1. Reconciliation to God the fountaine of all true comfort page 463 Doct. 2. Our condition here wonderous Changable page 470 Doct. 3. God will never cast down his people so low bur he will raise them up at last page 480 Doct. 4. Afflictions past though long seeme short page 485 Doct. 5. We may pray for mercy answerable to our misery page 486 VERSE XVI Doct. 1. God is the protector of his people page 489 Doct. 2. Gods servants may looke for protection from him page 495 Doct. 3. No worke more excellent then Gods protecting his Church page 501 Doct. 4. To plead Gods glory a good motive to move the Lord to helpe page 509 Doct. 5. We ought to take care of the Church after our dayes page 518 Doct. 6. Wicked cannot pray for themselves or others but repenting of their sins can both page 527 VERSE XVII Doct. 1. We are deformed till the beauty of Christs Rigteousnesse be put upon us page 427 Doct. 2. Nothing we doe can prosper without Gods blessing page 532 Doct. 3. Before War is to be taken in hand God is to be Sought unto page 539 Doct. 4 Perseverance in any good Gods gift page 543 FINIS